Helen Southworth

Bio

Helen Southworth is Professor of English at the University of Oregon.  Recent publications include “Virginia Woolf and Literary London,” in The Oxford Handbook to Virginia Woolf, ed. Anne E. Fernald (2021), and, with Nicola Wilson, “Early Women Workers at the Hogarth Press (c.1917-1925)” in Women in Print, ed. Helen Williams (2022).  Her most recent books include Fresca, A Life in the Making (2017) and the co-authored Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities: Making the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (2017).  She is co-founder of the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (www.modernistarchives.com).

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On July 27, 1927, Vita Sackville-West wrote to Virginia Woolf, describing an unexpected encounter: "Today as I was driving down Oxford Street I saw a woman on a refuge, carrying [ To the] Lighthouse. She was an unknown woman – up from the country, I should think, and just been to Mudie’s or the Times, – and as the policeman held me up with his white glove I saw your name staring at me, Virginia Woolf, against the moving red buses, in Vanessa’s paraph of lettering. Then as I stayed (with my foot pressing down the clutch"